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mars · @gavvet · (edited)
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Why I will not be going to Mars... Its too small
When it comes to habitable planets, among other things, size does matter when staying warm.
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http://www.msl-chemcam.com/doc/images/252/image005.jpg

As can be seen above mars is significantly smaller than earth.

With it being smaller than earth it has a larger surface area to mass ratio. As a result it cooled much more quickly and to all intents and purposes its once molten insides are now effectively frozen.

Without an internal rotating core the magnetosphere collapsed and there was no longer protection for its atmosphere from the solar wind.

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2012/1-earthsmagnet.jpg

I will not be going to mars because I have no inclination to live inside a microwave oven
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Without a rotating core and magnetosphere, aside from loosing its once almost earth-like atmosphere, it is subject to constant bombardment from cosmic rays

http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Mars-aurora-1024x470.jpg

Approximately 5 meters of martian soil will be required to produce the same amount of protection from cosmic and solar radiation our atmosphere provides.

I also don't know that I could live like a mole.
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@alexbeyman · (edited)
>Without a rotating core and magnetosphere, aside from loosing its once almost earth-like atmosphere

Are you aware that this process took millions of years? So if we artificially restored the atmosphere we'd have many, many, many times the total duration of human civilization to date before it would become a problem again.
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@gavvet · 
Precisely, and it also takes millions, actually billions of years to get an atmosphere to the state ours is in, and in just a few centuries we are creating all kinds of complex unintended consequences with our own that we can barely begin to understand let alone control.
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@alexbeyman · (edited)
>Precisely, and it also takes millions, actually billions of years to get an atmosphere to the state ours is in

Not artificially. Most of Mars' atmosphere didn't escape into space, it was absorbed into the soil. It would outgas and form a breathable atmosphere if Mars were sufficiently warmed. 

We've learned from messing with our own climate how that warming occurs. It's not that we don't know how to warm another planet's atmosphere, that's actually much easier than slowing or halting warming already in progress. 

Basically we just need to pollute the fuck out of Mars.
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@awgbibb · 
So My Daughter's Ex running over and killing a Martian on the Highway was probably not true?
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@gavvet · 
Calling them Martian is not PC... but then again running things over and killing them is probably worst ;)
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@builderofcastles · 
We will not be going to mars because of an important science that hasn't been developed yet.  (Maybe NASA has developed it and never told anyone about it)

Anyway, the people researching this area are called kooks and unscientific.  However the field is resplendent with healing affects and body self regeneration.  Without this, no man will survive the trip to Mars.

Sorry, I am being enigmatic.  But I use this as my barometer if anyone is actually doing what they are saying in space.
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@dailybitcoinnews · 
Elon Musk has plans that nuking the planet strategically will create an atmosphere and over time will create vegetation and such. Read on it here: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/2/9441029/elon-musk-mars-nuclear-bomb-colbert-interview-explained
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@gavvet · 
Sure it would be a great endeavor to teraform a planet. But without a magnetosphere the newly created atmosphere will last as long as the old one.... and we can see that atmospheric management is not an easy task (highly complex). One look at our own experience here with climate change etc. tells the story.
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@hopehuggs · 
Ah darn that's that option out of the window.  I'll knock Mars off my travel bucket list! Really interesting, thanks for sharing.   Hope and hugs.
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@lemouth · 
In the case I have to choose between a microwave oven and a destroyed Earth, I will pick the microwave oven...
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@nonameslefttouse · 
If Arnold can do it, I can do it.  

In reality, what's the point...  bragging rights?  People will land there, then 40 years later people will say, "Didn't happen!  NASA is a hoax!"
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@radioactivities · (edited)
Mars...bunch of rocks and craters and shit. What a nice life. 'Duh lets go to Mars just because. No man has gone there before! It's the virgin vagina of space! fuh fuh'
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@nonameslefttouse · 
If I wanted to go somewhere to look at rocks, I'd go outside.  I'd go to Mars though, if it paid well.  I'd want to skip training though.
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@spbesner · (edited)
great point i think that the idea of traveling too far into space is just totally unrealistic based on some planet of the apes (the book) type theory that time speed and travel quantum physics idk put those last 5 words together and you know what i mean. I understand mars is closer and i understand people want to terraform mars and blah blah but damn we cant even fix or take care of the planet we have you think we're just gonna create a livable habitat on that other rock. end rant lol  o yea typo  i'm guessing or should be our
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@gavvet · 
Thanks for the catch on the typo
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